
Why it matters that Kevin McCarthy lied
CNN
On Thursday morning, The New York Times reported that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy had told colleagues in the aftermath of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol that he was going to counsel then-President Donald Trump to resign.
On Thursday afternoon, McCarthy issued a blanket denial that he had ever said such a thing -- calling The New York Times' reporting "totally false and wrong."

The preeminent body tracking alleged Russian war crimes in the war with Ukraine, including the abduction of Ukrainian children, has transferred its data to Ukraine’s government and the US State Department as it prepares to shut down in the coming weeks after the Trump administration terminated its funding.

As Trump’s ‘two week’ deadline for Russia expires, he faces a series of unresolved foreign conflicts
Two weeks after President Donald Trump set a 14-day timeline for determining the willingness of his Russian counterpart to end the conflict in Ukraine, he says he is coming to believe Vladimir Putin doesn’t care about the human cost of his war.